About Pinnaroo Soldiers' Memorial Hospital
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About Us
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Author: Di Thornton
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Publishing date: 24 June 2002 5:58pm
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Pinnaroo Soldiers' Memorial Hospital is a 31 bed facility and was initially built in 1921. 20 beds are for aged care, 10 beds are for acute medical and 1 high dependency bed.
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The Accident & Emergency Department operates 24 hours a day. The hospital has a very active Outreach Department which provides in home care for the aged, frail and disabled in the community over seven days a week. Respite services are offered for carers in the community via the Day Care Centre and also by providing residential respite care.
The hospital staff are actively involved in Health Promotion Activities and each year at the annual Pinnaroo Show the hospital hosts a Health Promotion Tent where the community can get free health checks. Some of the successful health promotion activities that the hospitlal have conducted include suicides awareness evenings, womens health days, mens health evenings, diabetes clinics, lymphoedema clinics.
The hospital promotes staff education due to the remoteness of the area and provides support for staff to attend external education. There are a number of Allied Health Services available through the hospital and these are a Physiotherapist, and Aromatherapist/masseuse, Podiatrist, Occupational therapist and Social worker.
The hospital has an active Friends of the Pinnaroo Hospital who are always busy raising funds for purchases for the hospital.
The General Practice Surgery is owned and administered by the Pinnaroo Soldiers' Memorial Hospital. The General Practitioners are contracted to the practice but work as independent practitioners.
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